New York is still a sanctuary city, but ICE detainers under President Trump have skyrocketed in the Big Apple. City officials, however, are determined to oppose those detainers every step of the way. It’s inexplicable that any city would go to such effort to protect people in the country illegally, but that seems to be the line that New York has drawn.
Meanwhile, the detainers just keep coming.
President Donald Trump‘s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released numbers on Wednesday showing that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already issued 400% more detainers on illegal immigrants in sanctuary city of New York than former President Joe Biden did during his entire term.
The data shows that ICE has issued 6,025 arrest requests to transfer custody or detainers since Trump took office in January. DHS says that during Biden’s entire presidency, he issued just 9,472 detainers in New York City.
We’re becoming accustomed to these kinds of observations, wherein President Trump has accomplished more in six months than Joe Biden did in four years. Granted, our pleasure in that is dampened (only a little) by the low bar that Joe Biden set, in that such things as “staying awake” and “speaking coherently” are enough to surmount it. But President Trump has his timelines, and his agenda, and cleaning up the millions in the country illegally was and is a key priority.
New York, of course, is not cooperating.
Despite the surge in ICE detainers, the department says that New York City has honored only a “handful” of the requests.
“In just six months, ICE has issued over 6,000 detainers in NYC alone—that’s a more than 400 percent increase in the number of detainers lodged under Biden,” Assistant DHS Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital in a statement.
Again, there’s that low bar again. But this is a significant accomplishment all on its own.
Homan Puts Sanctuary Cities on Notice, Slams the Media Over Immigration Enforcement Coverage
What Democrats have managed to do, of course, is to demonize ICE and other federal officials at every turn, with predictable results.
Assaults on ICE agents are up 830% since Trump took office, according to DHS, and the department said in the press release Wednesday that the violence is “largely driven” by anti-ICE rhetoric and sanctuary policies.
New York City’s sanctuary immigration policies catapulted to the forefront of the national conversation over the weekend when an off-duty border patrol officer was shot in the face by a man government officials say is an illegal immigrant.
The border is closed, and the Trump administration has been moving towards cutting off federal funds for sanctuary jurisdictions, which may serve to encourage them to do what a majority of American citizens clearly voted for. And New York, in particular, would actually benefit from the removal of a few thousand illegal aliens, especially in areas like the crime-ridden South Bronx, or even Queens.
New York would do well to assist ICE, not to impede them. After all, it’s not like the Big Apple has fruit that won’t get picked if the illegal aliens aren’t there.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to President Trump, illegal immigration into our great country has virtually stopped. Despite the radical left’s lies, new legislation wasn’t needed to secure our border, just a new president.
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